Philosophy
When we interact with other people, it's easy to think that the way we see things is the right way, and that those who don't agree are wrong. This tendency affects everyone: scientists, couples, workers and bosses, and warring nations. Getting beyond this point takes training and education. We don't come as reasonable, understanding human beings prepared to compromise or negotiate for the common good. We indulge in gang fights, domestic violence, race riots, labor disputes, border skirmishes, turf wars, and international conflict, usually with a flair for the sociopathic. I use the main spheres of human experience (thought, feeling, desire, and action) as interacting fields for teaching students to explore perceptions of self and the other. My objective is to have them open to understanding the experience of others--beyond the customary boundaries of gender, sexuality, racialized ethnicity, and class.
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